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Bromley driving test centre

DVSA name: Bromley (London) · 121-123 Burnt Ash Lane, BROMLEY, BR1 5AB

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Pass rate 2025/26
52.9%
GB 50.0% · London 49.1%
Median wait, Aug 2026
9.3weeks
Free slots 24 weeks ahead
Tests a year
13,228
6,997 passed

Key facts

  • Bromley's pass rate was 52.9% in 2025/26 from 13,228 tests, 2.9 points above the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 4 of 24 centres in London (London average 49.1%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 3.8 points above it.
  • Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 2.4 points, from 50.5% to 52.9%.
  • Male candidates passed at 56% and female candidates at 49.5%, a gap of 6.5 points, wider than at most centres.
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 9.3 weeks since booking (shorter than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
  • A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 20.3 weeks, so waits have shortened by about 11 weeks.

Bromley runs more than 13,000 car tests a year, which makes it one of the busiest centres in London, and it passes more of its candidates than all but three of the capital's other centres. It does that on slow roads. Seventy-three per cent of the tagged roads within two and a half kilometres of Burnt Ash Lane are 20 mph. There is no level crossing, no rural stretch and very little at 40. What there is instead is 51 signalled junctions, 23 mini-roundabouts and 65 schools inside the same radius. The test is dense, slow and made of turning: the busiest of the practice loops on this page holds fourteen right turns and twelve left in six and a half miles.

Drive the Bromley test routes before test day

5 loops from the centre, 52 km in all, with 3 roundabouts and 122 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Bromley; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

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Drive all 5 loops around Bromley from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.

  • 5 routes · 52 km · 122 marked turns
  • Examiner-style marking on signalling and observation
  • Street View tour of each route
  • Every roundabout and junction, in the order you'll meet them
  • The four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios, included
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  1. Route 1 · via Shroffold Road
    11.9 km loop with 1 roundabout, 13 right turns, 13 left turns and a stretch of Elmstead Lane.
    11.9 km · 27 turns · 1 roundabout
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  2. Route 2 · via Willoughby Lane
    10.3 km loop with 14 right turns, 12 left turns and a stretch of Southover.
    10.3 km · 26 turns
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  3. Route 3 · via Burnt Ash Lane
    8.8 km loop with 13 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Avondale Road.
    8.8 km · 23 turns
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  4. Route 4 · via Plaistow Lane
    10.1 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Bromley Road.
    10.1 km · 21 turns · 2 roundabouts
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  5. Route 5 · via Burnt Ash Lane
    10.4 km loop with 13 right turns, 12 left turns and a stretch of Marvels Lane.
    10.4 km · 25 turns
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The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.

Three quarters of the tagged roads in this area are 20 mph. That is the fact that shapes a Bromley test, and it is the one candidates underestimate, because the roads themselves do not look like 20s. Downham Way, Rangefield Road, Shroffold Road and Marvels Lane are wide, straight and clear enough to sit at nearly 30 without noticing. The examiner will notice.

The counts here are for the area within two and a half kilometres rather than for the loops: 51 signalled junctions, 23 mini-roundabouts and only four named roundabouts, at Chinese Roundabout, West Hallowes, Plaistow Lane and Sanderson Square. Full-sized roundabouts barely feature in the drive. Four of the five practice loops on this page have one or none.

What the loops have is turns. Thirteen or fourteen right turns each and much the same number of left, most of them at give-way junctions into and out of residential roads with cars parked on both sides.

The exception is the A21, which is dual carriageway, and the other A and B roads through the area, Baring Road, College Road and Plaistow Lane among them. Those carry the 30 mph part of the drive and the only faster stretches on it.

With 65 schools inside the radius and a centre running car slots all day, the roads near a school will be busy at some point in your test whatever time you book. The failure here is not one hard junction. It is holding a 20 mph limit for the length of the drive while thirteen turns and a school run happen around you, and letting the observation thin out somewhere in the middle.

Pass rate at Bromley, 2019/20 to 2025/26

Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.

35%47.5%60%GB 50%52.9%19/2022/2325/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%35%70%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/2613,22852.9%56.0%49.5%
2024/2510,86851.7%55.2%48.0%
2023/2410,61051.3%55.2%47.1%
2022/237,33553.8%57.7%49.8%
2021/226,78350.5%54.5%46.3%
2020/211,74747.9%51.3%44.9%
2019/201,54240.6%46.1%33.8%

London average 49.1% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Bromley

Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.

01530GB 11.9 wks9.3Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 20269.3244636.6%
Jul 20269.3244731.8%
Jun 202614.4242943.1%
May 20269.7243940%
Apr 202616.9244246.8%
Mar 202611.1244639.8%

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Test day at Bromley

The centre is at 121 to 123 Burnt Ash Lane. It is a roadside unit rather than a building set back from the street, and the pair of numbers is what to look for.

DVSA runs car tests here and nothing else. For a centre of this size that is unusual, and it is why the timetable runs tight, with car slots back to back all day. Arrive about ten minutes before yours rather than half an hour.

Nothing is published about wheelchair access or other arrangements, so ring the centre in advance if you need step-free entry or anything agreed beforehand. Parking is not published either. On a main road unit in outer London there is seldom parking at the door, and instructors normally use the side streets, which is what to plan for.

Sundridge Park station is under a kilometre away, so this is one of the London centres you can reach on foot from a train, and the buses along the main road run past the end of it.

The median wait was a little over nine weeks in July, about eight weeks shorter than a year earlier, so getting a date here has become much easier than it was. Tests are booked, moved and cancelled only through GOV.UK.

What DVSA publishes about Bromley

Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.

Tests conducted here
car
Wheelchair access
Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.

Learner reports from Bromley

No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.

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What examiners mark most often

DVSA does not publish faults by centre, but it does publish them nationally. These collected the most marks across every car test in Great Britain in 2025/26, and they are the same ones you will be marked on at Bromley.

  1. 1Junctions - observation
  2. 2Mirrors - change direction
  3. 3Junctions - turning right
  4. 4Response to signs - traffic lights
  5. 5Control - steering
  6. 6Move off - safely

All ten, and what each one means

Getting there

121-123 Burnt Ash Lane
BROMLEY BR1 5AB

Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK

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Questions learners ask about Bromley

Is Bromley an easy test centre?
By the numbers, yes: 52.9% of car tests were passed there in 2025/26, against 50.0% nationally. Pass rates reflect the local roads and who takes tests there as much as the examiners, so treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
How long is the wait for a driving test at Bromley?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Bromley was 9.3 weeks, and you had to look about 24 weeks ahead to find a week with at least 10% of slots free. DVSA publishes this monthly; the figure above updates when they do.
Where is Bromley driving test centre?
Bromley test centre is at 121-123 Burnt Ash Lane, BROMLEY, BR1 5AB. Arrive at least 10 minutes early with your provisional licence; parking rules vary by centre, so check the learner reports below.
How many driving tests does Bromley do a year?
13,228 car tests were conducted at Bromley in 2025/26, of which 6,997 were passed.

Source: DVSA tables DRT122A (pass rates by centre and month) and DRT122F (waiting times and availability), Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRank adds the comparisons and rankings.

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